This week, from the 11th to the 15th November, Anti-Bullying Week takes place across the UK, an event intended to raise awareness of the issues surrounding bullying among children, particularly those in school. Bullying is a fundamental issue throughout children of school age and is particularly prevalent in children attending both primary and secondary school, making this…
Raising children can be extremely demanding, but it’s good to remember that you’re not alone. In the current day and age, there are more single-parent families than ever before. Knowing how to manage on a day-to-day basis can be a real challenge when it comes to bringing up a happy and healthy child and also finding enough hours in the day to get on with your own tasks. The goods news is that…
Your home is your castle, so it’s important that you keep it safe and well-maintained throughout the year. Should you notice any damage or issues then it’s important that you have them checked out by a professional, but finding someone reliable can be a struggle. You don’t want to work with someone who will do a poor job, or take a long time, or just offer poor service. To help you find the…
There’s no doubt that children these days are exposed to sexual images and adult content at a far younger age, and in more places than ever before, including music videos, websites and social media.
In 2018/19, the NSPCC’s round-the-clock service, Childline delivered 876 counselling sessions with children worried about online pornography. And with the Government delaying plans to bring in…
Multiple pressures faced by parents with developing toddlers is on the rise and could have a negative impact on parental wellbeing, as new research reveals high numbers (73%) constantly worry about what other people around them think. The new child development surveyindependently commissioned by nationwide preschool activity class provider, Toddler Sense, questioned more than a thousand UK…
Battling an illness is one thing, but battling an illness and still having to be on the move due to having a child is another. Here are sometips on how to tackle the day when they’re feeling under the weather but staying in bed and recovering is not an option.
Take everything at your own pace
Your health is always the most important thing, so don’t ever feel the need to rush. If…
Your three-year old comes out of the bathroom holding a tampon and asks, “can I have this?” – or a porn ad pops up on the computer while you’re watching youtube with your eight-year-old.
The question to ask yourself is, what would a Dutch parent say?
Dutch teenagers are the happiest in the world, and with holistic sex education from the age of four, they’re having first time…
Last year I attended a local parenting course in Wandsworth to prepare myself for the challenges of bringing up a teenager. We discussed ways to reward a child for good behaviour and/or excellent performance at school.
It is important to motivate children and reward them when they do something right or when they display emotional intelligence through a particularly sympathetic behaviour towards…
If walking was an official sport, I would probably be an Olympic champion. I fought for a school which was at walking distance and my son and I have been enjoying the walk to school routine every day throughout the primary school years. Since he started secondary school he has been happily walking to school. It is obvious that walking is highly beneficial to both the physical and mental…
Now that my son has become a teenager, I look around and see things differently. So much so that I often feel that I live in the screenagers era, in a a world of screens – the tv is constantly humming away in the background, we work on our computers, and we scroll through our phones and ipads. So getting away from our screens – and importantly, getting kids away from them is important.